Revelations of the NSA PRISM program and other surveillance operations have already put planned or existing use of public cloud services on ice. A survey of Redmond readers shows skepticism of the government and key providers -- including Microsoft.

Microsoft, which recently demonstrated the new Power BI for Office 365 at its WPC Conference in July, said the new product is aimed at those starting to transition to BI and those who want to provision BI solutions in the cloud.